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REUNION OVERTURE OF THE NORTHERN GENERAL ASSEMBLY TO THE SOUTHERN PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH, CONSIDERED: OR, THE RECORDS OF THE NORTHERN O. S. ASSEMBLY, FROM A.D. 1861 TO 1869, REVIEWED.

Jackson, Mississippi: Clarion Steam Printing Establishment. 1870. Original printed wrappers [loosened], stitched, 87 pages. Wraps a bit dusted, text clean. Very Good. An unreconstructed Mississippian angrily counsels his brethren to reject the Northern General Assembly's overtures. The pamphlet was originally published under the signature of 'Presbyter,' as articles in... More

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REMINISCENCES OF CHARLESTON. BY J.N. CARDOZO.

Charleston: Joseph Walker, 1866. 144pp, old rubberstamp on blank portion of title page. Bottom blank tear to title page [expertly reinforced]. Bound in modern grey wrappers. Good+. A Sephardic Jew, Cardozo was born in 1786 in Savannah. Self-educated, he was an outstanding economist, an editor of the Southern Patriot... More

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MEMORIAL OF THE AGENTS OF THE NEW ENGLAND MISSISSIPPI LAND COMPANY TO CONGRESS, WITH A VINDICATION OF THEIR TITLE AT LAW ANNEXED [bound with] A VINDICATION OF THE RIGHTS OF THE NEW ENGLAND MISSISSIPPI LAND COJMPANY, BY THE AGENTS OF SAID COMPANY.

Washington: A. & G. Way, 1804. [2], 7, [1 blank], [2], 109, [1 blank] pp. Bound in attractive modern two-toned cloth. Each of the title pages has a numerical rubberstamp in blank portion. Untrimmed, scattered light soil, one tape repair at pages 107-108 [no text affected]. Good+. This Yazoo document... More

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A HISTORY OF THE LIFE AND PUBLIC SERVICES OF MAJOR GENERAL ANDREW JACKSON. IMPARTIALLY COMPILED FROM THE MOST AUTHENTIC SOURCES.

[np]: 1828. [2], 36, [1], [1 blank] pp. Two binding holes and two later staples in blank inner margin. Scattered foxing, Good+. This is one of several variant printings, all anonymous. Perhaps the author concluded that revealing his identity would be unwise: he portrays Jackson as a violent, reckless, impulsive... More

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SLAVE BILL OF SALE: $750/ JACKSON, JANUARY 15 1848 | RECEIVED OF CAROLINE HESTER SEVEN HUNDRED AND FIFTY DOLLARS IN FULL FOR A NEGRO BOY NAMED DICK AGED ABOUT TWENTY YEARS. I WARRANT SAID NEGRO BOY SOUND IN BODY AND MIND, I ALSO GUARANTEE THE TITLE OF SAID BOY TO BE A SLAVE FOR LIFE./ J.D. SHEWALTER.

Jackson [Mississippi]: 1848. Manuscript bill of sale, 3 7/8" x 7 5/8". Blue unlined paper, prepared completely in ink manuscript. Docketed on verso, "Bill of Sale for Boy Perry from Shoewalter & Caroline Hester." Additional notation on verso showing this may have been an exhibit in a later legal proceeding... More

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SYSTEM OF PENAL LAW, PREPARED FOR THE STATE OF LOUISIANA; COMPRISING CODES OF OFFENCES AND PUNISHMENTS, OF PROCEDURE, OF PRISON DISCIPLINE, AND OF EVIDENCE APPLICABLE AS WELL TO CIVIL AS TO CRIMINAL CASES. AND A BOOK, CONTAINING DEFINITIONS OF ALL THE TECHNICAL WORDS USED IN THIS SYSTEM. PREPARED UNDER THE AUTHORITY OF A LAW OF THE SAID STATE. Edward Livingston.

SYSTEM OF PENAL LAW, PREPARED FOR THE STATE OF LOUISIANA; COMPRISING CODES OF OFFENCES AND PUNISHMENTS, OF PROCEDURE, OF PRISON DISCIPLINE, AND OF EVIDENCE APPLICABLE AS WELL TO CIVIL AS TO CRIMINAL CASES. AND A BOOK, CONTAINING DEFINITIONS OF ALL THE TECHNICAL WORDS USED IN THIS SYSTEM. PREPARED UNDER THE AUTHORITY OF A LAW OF THE SAID STATE.

New Orleans: Printed by Benjamin Levy, 1824. Folio. 164pp. Bound in attractive modern quarter calf with marbled boards, gilt-lettered morocco title label on spine. Rubberstamp on title page, else a clean text and Very Good. The author, a disciple of Bentham, presents the philosophical underpinnings of his penal system... More

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ACTS PASSED AT THE SECOND SESSION OF THE FIRST LEGISLATURE OF THE TERRITORY OF ORLEANS, BEGUN AND HELD IN THE CITY OF NEW-ORLEANS, ON THE TWELFTH DAY OF JANUARY... [1807].

New-Orleans: Bradford & Anderson, Printers to the Territory, 1807. ix, [1 blank], 207, [1 blank] pp [complete]. Continuously paginated, in alternating English and French. Several blank upper margins reinforced [occasionally obscuring a page number]. Light scattered spotting, rubberstamp on title page and in blank lower margin of another page. Good+... More

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POLITICAL TRACT NO. 5. JANUARY 1832. THE REMEDY BY STATE INTERPOSITION, OR NULLIFICATION; EXPLAINED AND ADVOCATED BY CHANCELLOR HARPER, IN HIS SPEECH AT COLUMBIA, (S.C.) ON THE TWENTIETH SEPTEMBER, 1830. Harper, William.

POLITICAL TRACT NO. 5. JANUARY 1832. THE REMEDY BY STATE INTERPOSITION, OR NULLIFICATION; EXPLAINED AND ADVOCATED BY CHANCELLOR HARPER, IN HIS SPEECH AT COLUMBIA, (S.C.) ON THE TWENTIETH SEPTEMBER, 1830.

Charleston: Published by the State Rights and Free Trade Association. Printed by E.J. Van Brunt. 1832. 24pp. Disbound with some loosening. Moderate foxing, generous margins. Good+. Harper was a State Rights Democrat, an enthusiastic advocate of a social order based on African Slavery, and Chancellor of South Carolina, the highest... More

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THE REPORTS AND ORDINANCES, OF THE CONVENTION OF THE PEOPLE OF SOUTH CAROLINA. ADOPTED AT ITS SESSION IN MARCH, 1833.

Columbia: Printed by A.S. Johnston, Printer to the Convention, 1833. 19, [1 blank] pp. Stitched, lightly foxed, title page lightly dusted. About Very Good. South Carolina withdraws, with maximum face-saving, its Ordinance of Nullification, which had asserted its power to nullify the Tariffs of 1828 and 1832 within its borders... More

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A BRIEF ENQUIRY INTO THE TRUE NATURE AND CHARACTER OF OUR FEDERAL GOVERNMENT: BEING A REVIEW OF JUDGE STORY'S COMMENTARIES ON THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES. BY A VIRGINIAN. Abel Upshur.

A BRIEF ENQUIRY INTO THE TRUE NATURE AND CHARACTER OF OUR FEDERAL GOVERNMENT: BEING A REVIEW OF JUDGE STORY'S COMMENTARIES ON THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES. BY A VIRGINIAN.

Petersburg: Edmund and Julian C. Ruffin, 1840. 132pp. Rebound in modern black cloth with red cloth gilt-titled spine. Light scattered foxing. Institutional blind stamp at title page. Good+ to Very Good. Upshur, the Virginia State-Rights jurist, would succeed Daniel Webster as President Tyler's Secretary of State. In that august... More

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JOINT RESOLUTIONS OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ARKANSAS, RELATIVE TO THE DEATH OF HON. JOHN A. QUITMAN. Arkansas.

JOINT RESOLUTIONS OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ARKANSAS, RELATIVE TO THE DEATH OF HON. JOHN A. QUITMAN.

[Little Rock: 1858]. Broadside, @7" x 9". Caption title, followed by two-column text surrounded by ruled border. Printed on pale blue paper. Tanned portion, else Very Good. A rare Arkansas imprint, evidently unrecorded, eulogizing the Mississippian Quitman, a pro-slavery, State Rights Senator whose "clear and far sighted mind early... More

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